Ed Finnell wrote:
In a message dated 11/5/2006 9:30:54 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can buy license for the smallest z9BC and use the same code on
2064-2C16 bought on second-hand market. Or several machines. Or without
buying any license, just pay your friendly sysprog for copy of the
tapes...
It's legal issue, not technical one.
(Ed responses:)
[...]
Paying for or loaning IBM tapes is illegal in US-Property of IBM. Seen
people fired for bringing in unlicensed software to large shops.
OF COURSE it is illegal, not only in the US. It is as illegal as running
software on bigger machine than licensed one, or on more machines.
Breaking any rule from license agreement is illegal (unless law
regulations allow for something).
My point was it is possible to cheat IBM (illegally of course) without
Hercules or PSI machine. So, it is not good excuse for denying software
for PSI machine owners.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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